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...EUGENE ONEGIN, by Vladimir Nabokov. Novelist-Scholar Nabokov has translated Alexander Pushkin's 19th century novel-in-verse with accuracy and range of meaning closer to the original than any previous version. By contrast, his volumes of notes show Nabokov as an obsessive genius in action-a side of himself that he kidded in his brilliant academic satire, Pale Fire...
...EUGENE ONEGIN, translation and commentary in four volumes by Vladimir Nabokov. Polylingual, and a poet in his own right, Novelist-Scholar Nabokov (Pale Fire) has translated Alexander Pushkin's remarkable 19th century novel-in-verse with a sense of accuracy and range of meaning closer to the original Russian than any previous version. Nabokov's supplementary volumes of notes provide the amusing, exasperating and always impressive sight of a crusty literary personality in action...
...EUGENE ONEGIN, translation and commentary in four volumes by Vladimir Nabokov. Polylingual, and a poet in his own right, Novelist-Scholar Nabokov (Pale Fire) has translated Alexander Pushkin's remarkable 19th century novel-in-verse with a sense of accuracy and range of meaning closer to the original Russian than any previous version. Nabokov's supplementary volumes of notes provide the amusing, exasperating and always impressive sight of the crusty Nabokov literary personality in action...
Whenever Joseph Stalin saw an opera that wasn't Eugene Onegin he went home mad, but rarely as mad as he was the night he saw Dmitry Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. "Gnashing and screeching, crude, primitive, vulgar," Pravda roared, having prudently reconsidered a published opinion that called the opera "a triumph" after its 1934 debut two years before. Shostakovich withdrew the opera, and off and on over the years, he set to work at revision...
...Metropolitan asked Schwarzkopf to appear in a production of Engen Onegin, but she refused because it was to be in English ("You try to project the th sound over 14 violins"). Would she still be interested in the Met? Perhaps, but ''if it's not Marschallin, then addio. It's their loss, not mine...